Job Title: Buyer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £39,607 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71425
Shape the Supply Chains That Power the UK's Most Critical Engineering Projects
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Buyer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Buyer, you'll play a vital role in strengthening the procurement and supply chain activities that underpin Babcock's delivery of major defence, engineering and infrastructure programmes.
Day-to-day, you'll bring your commercial insight, sourcing expertise and strong relationship‑building skills to help drive value, ensure quality and enhance supplier performance.
* Managing sourcing and tendering of materials to support business unit bids and project execution.
* Negotiating pricing and supply agreements to secure cost‑effective and quality‑focused procurement outcomes.
* Ensuring supplier performance meets requirements of time, cost and quality across contract scope.
* Protecting Babcock's commercial position through effective contract terms, purchase orders and negotiation practices.
* Providing timely management information and supporting accurate financial processing for supplier payments.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Buyer
* Proven ability in supply chain performance management.
* Strong contract management capability.
* Excellent relationship‑building and stakeholder engagement skills.
* Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Strong IT awareness and confidence using digital tools.
Qualifications for the Buyer
* Degree‑level qualification or equivalent - Desirable
* CIPS (or equivalent procurement qualification) - Desisrable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ).
What we offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
* Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
* 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock
We're Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 26/02/2026
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